- off the shelf 기성품의
not designed or made to order but taken from existing stock or supplies.
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He essentially trained a neural net to detect facial features that would allow you to predict someone’s sexual orientation just from a photo.
Now, this paper, I would suggest, has deep methodological and ethical problems, particularly when you consider that being gay is still criminalised in over 78 countries, some of which apply the death penalty.
But I’d actually like to make a deeper point, tonight.
Machine learning as a field is making a conceptual error when we try to classify somebody’s race or gender or sexual identity based on their face. It’s this confusion of categories to treat these, sort of, fluid, relational, social ways of being, as though they are fixed objects, like a cat or a chair.
And I think it can pose real classificatory harms. Now, Kosinski justified this paper by saying that it’s really important to show people that this can be done with off-the-shelf machine-learning tools.